What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity,… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
To me, there's two symbols for Team U.S.A.: the national anthem and the American flag. — Mike Schultz Copy Share Image
I was originally cast to be the brains of the Enterprise. Somehow I became The Chick. There's a little ugly girl inside… — Marina Sirtis Copy Share Image
Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture I am… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that… — Harvey Weinstein Copy Share Image
For the signifier is a unit in its very uniqueness, being by nature symbol only of an absence. — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary… — James Webb Young Copy Share Image
If it is unpatriotic to tear down the flag, which is a symbol of the country, why isn't it more unpatriotic to… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Because for me, equations and symbols aren't just a thing. They're a voice that speaks out about the incredible richness of nature… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
There are indeed 'values' in the Harry Potter series, but they're confused with anti-values. Potterworld is a scrambled moral universe. There are… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the… — Jean-Louis Gassee Copy Share Image
A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
In obedience to the feeling of reality, we shall insist that, in the analysis of propositions, nothing "unreal" is to be admitted.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I like California because it still has the glamour and romanticism and exoticism of a very foreign place. It was the place… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“Symbols, for me and for many, of freedom, whether it be from the prison of over-dense communities and the close confines of… — Gavin Maxwell Copy Share Image
What I am trying to do when I use symbols is to awaken in your unconscious some reaction. I am very conscious… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
The violence of the Left is symbolic, the injuries are not intended. The violence of the Right is real - directed at… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
A candle is a living, flickering light. It can easily be blown out. As we watch a candle burn we see the… — Gunilla Brodde Norris Copy Share Image
“..perhaps all our lovers are merely hints and symbols; vagabond languages scrawled on gate-posts and paving stones along the weary road that… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
So we find that in almost every religion these are the three primary things which we have in the worship of God… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Although it is a symbol of life, the female body is unfortunately not rarely attacked and disfigured, even by those who should… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings… — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols… we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol. — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms… — Jerrold Nadler Copy Share Image
A good trademark, whether a word mark or a symbol, is devoid of fashion or trend, which makes it potentially iconic if… — Ivan Chermayeff Copy Share Image
As a sex symbol, I don't know what is appealing to women. I think it's the way you treat women that makes… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
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